Mom on the Run

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Recipe Disaster: Crock Pot Spicy Chicken Posted: 20 Aug 2012 04:50 AM PDT I usually have a great eye for good tasting recipes. My weekly routine for recipe/menu planning begins on Saturday morning. I scour my recipe binder (torn out pages from magazines in a protective plastic sheet) and internet (blogs) for a weeks worth of recipes. Usually I go 6 for 6 for recipes and the family is very happy. This week was a completely different story. While perusing my stack of recipe magazines that I have stored (aka hoarded) I found an old Slow Cooking special magazine from Woman’s Day. I had for some reason never prepared anything from the magazine and decided that I need a quick and easy slow cooker recipe for the week. I had some chicken drumsticks and thighs ready to use in the freezer and that is exactly what the recipe called for. At first glance the ingredients that the recipe used were a little bizarre in my opinion but I thought Women's Day would not publish something that was not magazine worthy. Boy was I wrong! This recipe was nothing but horrible! Let’ us look at this recipe….shall we Spicy Chicken By :Woman's Day Ingredients 4 each chicken drumsticks and thighs (about 2 1/2 lb) 2 can(s) (14 1/2 oz each) petite cut diced tomatoes with zesty jalapeños 0.5 cup(s) creamy peanut butter Directions Remove skin from chicken by grasping it with paper towels and pulling it off. Mix all ingredients in a 3-qt or larger slow-cooker. Cover and cook on high 4 to 5 hours or low 7 to 9 hours until chicken is tender. Carefully lift chicken (it’s fall-off-the-bone tender) onto serving plates, spoon on sauce and garnish with chopped cilantro, if desired. I didn't even have a picture of the finished product because it was such a disaster. The flavor was as if I coated a slice of tomato with peanut butter. I hate wasting food but this was a dinner disaster. Good thing I had left over lasagna because that saved dinner. Daijia went so far as to say, "since dinner was so bad can we at least make a good tasting desert!" So I whipped up some Rice Krispy treats and the dinner disaster was long forgotten. I can't believe that I even posted about such a disaster. My blog mission: I don't want anyone else to make the same mistake and be a mom dinner zero. Have you ever had a recipe disaster? Did you post about it?

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